A screening of some classic experimental films by Malcolm Le Grice, including Berlin Horse (1970) and Whitchurch Down (1972) and his more recent digital work.

Le Grice's cardinal and catalytic role in experimental film has been sus-tained since the mid-sixties when he was involved in the Arts Lab and the beginnings of the London Filmmakers' Co-op. His work was at the centre of English Structural/Material film in the early seventies but has transformed and renewed itself several times since - it is currently pushing the boundaries of experiment with new electronic technologies.

Le Grice has been insistent in restating political and modernist terms in his books Abstract Film and Beyond and recently Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age; but the films also offer rich visual and sensual pleasures. As a musician and painter they flow towards the desires of the senses as well as processes of the mind.

There is an extraordinary range within the metamorphoses of one artist's work. Berlin Horse (1970) is created through step printing, Brian Eno's music paralleling the visual loops. The film explores "how the eye works and how the minds builds up a perceptual rhythmic structure". Despite the differences of means and format, there is some continuity from the percussive editing, semi-figurative images in an early piece like Whitchurch Down (1972) to the Jazz extemporisation and improvisation found in his digital film-making.

His most recent film Cyclops Cycle (2004) exists in three-screen version and moves from the mythic to the domain of the domestic - "stabs at the personal for fragments of experience ".

Cyclops Cycle is an installation in the top floor gallery, Triskel Arts Centre, Monday 11th to Saturday 16th. ADMISSION FREE.

This programme was curated by Rod Stoneman